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Chapter 9
He cried also with a loud voice
in mine ears, saying: Come her ye rulers of the city, every man with
his *wrapened hand to the slaughter. Then came there six men out of
the street of the upper port toward the north, and every man a
weapon in his hand to the slaughter. There was one amongst them,
that had on him a linen rayment, and a writers inkhorn by his side.
These went in, and stood beside the brazen alter: for the
glory of the Lord was gone away from the Cherub, and was come down
to the threshold of the house, and he called the man that had the
linen rayment upon him, and the writers inkhorn by his side, and the
Lord said unto him: Go thy way through the city of Jerusalem, and
set this mark *Thau upon the foreheads of them, that mourn and are
sorry for all the abominations, that be done therein. And to the
other, he said that I might hear: Go ye after him through the city,
slay, oversee none, spare none: kill and destroy both old man and
young, maidens children and wives. But as for those, that have this
mark Thau upon them: see that ye touch them not, and begin at my
Sanctuary. Then they began at the elders, which were in the temple,
for he had said unto them: When ye have defiled the temple, and
filled the court with the slain, then go your way forth. So they
went out, and slew down through the city. Now when they had done the
slaughter, and I yet escaped: I fell down upon my face, and cried
saying: O' Lord, wilt thou then destroy all the residue of Israel,
in thy sore displeasure, that thou hast poured out upon Jerusalem?
Then said he unto me: The wickedness of the house of Israel and Juda
is very great: so that the land is full of blood, and the city full
of unfaithfulness: For they say: Tush the Lord regardeth not the
earth, he seeth us not. Therefore will I upon them, mine eye shall
not oversee them, neither will I spare them, but will recompense
their wickedness upon their heads. And behold, the man that had the
linen rayment upon him, and the writers inkhorn by his side: told
all the matter how it happened, and said: Lord, as thou hast
commanded me, so have I done.
*wrapened= "covered hand"
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Chapter 10
And as I looked, behold, in the
firmament that was above the cherubins there appeared the similitude
of a stole of sapphire upon them: Then said he that sat therin, to
him that had the linen rayment upon him: Creep in between the wheels
that are under the Cherubins, and take thine hand full of hot coals
out from between the Cherubins, and cast them over the city. And he
crept in, that I might see.
Now the Cherubins stood on the right side of the house, when
the man went in, and the cloud filled the *innermer court. But the
glory of the Lord removed from the Cherubins, and came upon the
threshold of the house: so that the temple was full of clouds, and
the court was full of the shine of the Lords glory. Yee and the
sound of the Cherubins wings were heard into the fore court, like as
it had been the voice of the almighty God, when he speaketh. Now
when he had bidden the man that was clothed in linen, to go and take
the hot coals from the midst of the wheels, which were under the
Cherubins: he went and stood beside the wheels. Then the one
Cherubin reached froth his hand from under the Cherubins, unto the
fire that was between the Cherubins, and to take thereof, and to
give it unto him that had on the linen raiment in his hand: which he
took it, and went out. And under the wings of the Cherubins, there
appeared the likeness of a mans hand: I saw also four wheels beside
the Cherubins, so that by every Cherib stood a wheel. And the wheels
were (to look upon) after the fashion of the precious stone of
Tharsis: yet ( unto the sight ) were they fashioned and like, as if
one wheel had been in another.
When they went forth, they went all four together, not turning
about in their going: But where the first went, thither they went
also, so they turned not about in their going. Their whole bodies,
their backs, their hands and wings, yee and the wheels also, were
all full of eyes round about them all four. And I heard him call the
wheels, Galgal (that is ) a round *boule. Every one of them had four
faces: so that the one face was the face of a Cherub, the second of
a man, the third of a lion, the fourth of an Eagle, and they were
lifted up above. This is the beast, that I saw at the water of Cobar
Now when the Cherubins went, the wheels went with them, and when the
Cherubins shook their wings to lift themselves upward, the wheels
remained no behind, but were with them also. Shortly, when they
stood, these stood also: And when they were lift up, the wheels were
lift up also with them, for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
Then the glory of the Lord was lift up from the threshold of
the temple, and remained upon the Cherubins: And the Cherubins
flackered with their wings, and lift themselves up from the earth:
so that I saw when they went, and the wheels with them. And they
stood at the east side of the port that is in the house of the Lord.
So the glory of the Lord was upon them. This is the beast that I saw
under the God of Israel, by the water of Cobar. And I perceived,
that it was the Cherubins. Every one had four faces and every one
four wings, and under their wings, as it were mens hands. Now the
figure of their faces was, even as I had seen them, by the water of
Cobar, and so was the countenance of them: Every one in his going
went straight forward.
*innermer (innermost) *boule=legislature
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Chapter 11
Moreover, the
spirit of the Lord lift me up, and brought me unto the east port of
the Lords house. And beholds, there were twenty five men under the
door among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pheltiah the
son of Bananiah, the rulers of the people. Then said the Lord unto
me: Thou son of man: these men imagine mischief, and a wicked
counsel take they in this city, saying: Tush, there is no
destruction at hand, let us build houses: this Jerusalem is the
cauldron, and we be the flesh. Therefore shalt thou prophecy unto
them, yee prophecy shalt thou unto them, O son of man. And with that
fell the spirit of the Lord upon me, and said unto me: Speak, thus
sayeth the Lord: On this manner have ye spoken ( O ye house of
Israel ) and I know the imaginations of your hearts. Many one have
ye murdered in this city, and filled the streets full of the slain.
Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord God: The slain men that ye have
layed on the ground in this city, are the flesh, and this city is
the cauldron: But I will bring you out of it: ye have drawn out the
sword, even so I also bring a sword over you, sayeth the Lord God. I
will drive you out of this city and deliver you into your enemies
hand, and will condemn you. Ye shall be slain in all the coasts of
Israel, I will be avenged of you: to learn you for to know, that I
am the Lord. This city shall not be your cauldron, neither shall ye
be the flesh therin: but in the coasts of Israel will I punish you,
that ye may know, that I am the Lord, in whos commandments ye have
not walked, nor kept his laws: but you have done after the customs
of the Heathen, that lie around about you.
Now when I preached, Pheltiah the son of Bananiah died. Then
fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice: O' Lord God,
wilt thou then utterly destroy all the remnant of Israel? And so the
word of the Lord came to me on this manner: thou son of man: thy
brethren, thy kinfolk, and the whole house of Juda, which dwell at
Jerusalem, say: They be gone far from the Lord, but the land is
given us in possession. Therefore tell them thus sayeth the Lord
God: I will send you far off among the Gentiles, and scatter you
among the nations, and I will hallow you but a little, in the lands
where ye shall come. Tell them also, thus sayeth the Lord God: I
will gather you again out of the nations, and bring you from the
countries were ye be scattered, and will give you the land of Israel
again: And thither shall ye come. And as for all impediments, and
all your abominations: I will take them away.
And I will give you one heart, and I will plant a new spirit
within your bowels. That stony heart will I take out of your body,
and give you a fleshly heart: that ye may walk in my commandments,
and keep mine ordinances, and do them: that ye may be my people, and
I your God. But look whose hearts are disposed to follow their
abominations and wicked livings: those mens deeds will I bring upon
their own heads, sayeth the Lord God. After this did the Cherubins
lift up their wings, and the wheels went with them, and the glory of
the Lord was upon them. So the glory of the Lord went up from the
midst of the city, and stood upon the mount of the city toward the
east. But the wind took me up, and in a vision ( which came by the
spirit of God ) it brought me again into the Caldea among the
prisoners. Then the vision that I had seen, vanished away from me.
So I spake unto the prisoners, all the words of the Lord, which he
had showed me.
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Chapter 12
The word of the
Lord came unto me, saying: Thou son of man, thou dwellest in the
midst of a froward household: which have eyes to see, and see not:
ears have they to hear, and yet hear they not, for they are an
obstinate household. Therefore, (O thou son of man ), make thy gear
ready to flit, and go forth by fair daylight, that they may see. Yee
even in their sight shalt thou go from thy place to another place:
if peradventure they will consider, that they be an unobedient
household. Thy gear that thou hast made ready to flit withal, shalt
thou bear out by fair day light, that they may see: and thou thyself
shalt go forth also at even in their sight, as a man doth when he
fliteth. Dig through the wall, that they may see: and bear through
it the same thing, that thou tookest up in their sight. As for
thyself, thou shalt go forth in the dark. Hyde thy face that thou
see not the earth, for I have made thee a show token unto the house
of Israel. Now as the Lord commanded me, so I did: the gear that I
had made ready, I brought out by day. At even I broke down an hole
through the wall with mine hand: and when it was dark, I took up the
gear upon my shoulders and bare them out in their sight.
And in the morning, came the word of the Lord unto me, saying:
Thou son of man, if Israel that froward household ask thee and say:
What doest thou there? Then tell them: Thus saith the Lord God: This
punishment toucheth the chief rulers at Jerusalem, and all the house
of Israel, that dwell among them. Tell them I am your show token:
like as I have done, so shall it happen unto you: flit shall ye
also, and go into captivity. The cheifest that is among you, shall
laden his shoulders in the dark, and get him away. He shall break
down the wall, to carry stuff there through: he shall cover his
face, that he see not the ground, with his eyes. My line will I
spread out upon him, and catch him in my net, and carry him to
Babylon, in the land of the Chaldees: which he shall not see, and
yet shall he shall die there. As for all his helpers, and all his
Hosts, that be about him, I will scatter them toward all the winds,
and draw out the sword after them. So when I have scattered them
among the Heathen, and strewn them in the lands, they shall know,
that I am the Lord. But, I will leave a little number of them from
the sword, hunger and pestilence: to tell all their abominations
among the Heathen, where they come: that they may know, how that I
am the Lord.
Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me saying: Thou son
of man: with fearful trembling thou shalt eat thy bread, with
carefulness and sorrow shalt thou drink thy water. And unto the
people of the land, speak thou on this manner: Thus saith the Lord
God, to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to the land of Israel: Ye
shall eat your bread with sorrow, and drink your water with
heaviness: Yee the land with the fullness thereof shall be laid
waste, for the wickedness of them that dwell therin. And the cities
that now be well occupied, shall be void, and the land desolate:
that ye may know, that I am the Lord.
Yet came the word of the Lord unto me again, saying: Thou son
of man, what manner of by word is that, which ye use in the land of
Israel, saying: Tush, seeing that the days are so slack in coming,
all the visions are of none effect: Tell them therefore, thus saith
the Lord God: I will make that byword to cease, so that it shall
nomore be commonly used in Israel.
But say this unto them: The days are at hand, that everything
which hath been prophesied, shall be fulfilled. There shall no
vision be in vain, neither any prophecy fail among the children of
Israel: For it is I the Lord that speak it: and whatsoever, I the
Lord speak, it shall be performed, and not be slacken in coming.
Yee even in your days ( O ye froward household ) will I devise
something, and bring it to pass, sayeth the Lord God. And the word
of the Lord came unto me saying: Behold, thou son of man: The house
of Israel say in this manner: Tush as for the vision that he hath
seen, it will be many a day or it come to pass: Is it far off yet,
the thing that he propheceth. Therefor say unto them: Thus sayeth
the Lord: All my words shall no more be slack: Look what I speak,
that same shall come to pass, sayeth the Lord.
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Chapter 13
The word of the
Lord came unto me, saying: Thou son of man, speak prophesy against
those prophets, that preach in Israel: and say thou unto them that
prophesy out of their own hearts: Hear ye the word of the Lord, thus
saith the Lord God: Woe be unto those foolish prophets, that follow
their own spirit, and speak where they have seen nothing. O Israel,
thy prophets are like the foxes upon the dry field: For they stand
not in the gaps, neither made they an hedge for the house of Israel,
that men might abide the peril in the day of the Lord. Vain things
they see, and tell lies, to maintain their preachings withal. The
Lord ( saith they ) hath spoke it, when in very deed the Lord hath
not sent them. Vain visions have ye seen, and spoken false
prophesies, when ye say: the Lord hath spoken it where as I never
said it.
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because your words are
vain, and ye seek out lies: Behold, I will upon you, saith the Lord.
Mine hands shall come upon the prophets that look out vain things,
and preach lies: they shall not be in the counsel of my people, nor
shall they be written in the book of the house of Israel, neither
shall they come in the land of Israel: that ye shall know, how that
I am the Lord God. And that for this cause: they have deceived my
people, and told them of peace, where no peace was. One seteth up a
wall, and they daub it with loose clay. Therefore tell them that
daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall. For there shall
come a great shower of rain, great stones shall fall upon it, and a
sore storm of wind shall break it, so shall that wall come down.
Shall it not then be said unto you: where is now the mortar, that ye
daubed it withal? Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will break
out in my wrothfull displeasure with a stormy wind, so that in mine
anger there shall come a mighty shower of rain, and hailstones in my
wrath, to destroy withal.
As for the wall, that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, I
will break it down, make it even with the ground: so the foundation
thereof shall remove, and it shall fall, yee and ye yourselves shall
perish in the midst thereof: to learn you for to know, that I am the
Lord. Thus will I perform my wrath upon this wall, and upon them
that have daubed it with untempered mortar, and then will I say unto
you: The wall is gone, and the daubers are away. These are the
prophets of Israel, which prophesy unto the city of Jerusalem, and
look out visions of peace for them, where as no peace is, saith the
Lord God. Wherefore ( O thou son of man ) set thy face against the
daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own hearts: and
speak thou prophesy against them, and say: Thus saith the Lord God:
Woe be unto you, that sew pillows under all armholes, and bolsters
under the heads both of young and old, to catch souls withal. For
when ye have gotten the souls of my people in your captivity, ye
promise them life, and dishonor me to my people, for a handful of
barley, and for a piece of bread: when ye kill the souls of them,
that die not, and promise life to them, that live not: Thus ye
dissemble with my people, that believeth your lies.
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will also upon
your pillows, wherewith ye catch the souls in flying: them will I
take from your arms, and let the souls go, that ye catch in flying.
Your bolsters also will I tear in pieces, and deliver my people out
of your hand: so that they shall come no more in your hands to be
spoiled, and ye shall know, that I am the Lord. Seeing that with
your lies you discomfort the heart of the righteous, whom I have not
discomforted: Again: For so much as ye courage the hand of the
wicked, so that he may not turn from his wicked way, and live:
therefore shall ye spy out no more vanity, nor prophecy your own
guessings: for I will deliver my people out of your hand, that ye
may know, how that I am the Lord.
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Chapter 14
There resorted unto me certain
of the elders of Israel, and sat by me. Then came the word of the
Lord unto me, saying: Thou son of man, these men bare their idols in
their heart, and go purposely upon the stumbling block of their own
wickedness: how dare they then ask counsel at me? Therefore speak
unto them, and say: thus saith the Lord God: Every man of the house
of Israel that beareth his Idols in his heart, purposing to stumble
in his own wickedness, and cometh to a prophet, to inquire anything
at me by him: unto that man will I the Lord myself give answer,
according to the multitude of his idols: that the house of Israel
may be snared in their own hearts, because they be clean gone from
me, for their idols sakes.
Wherefore, tell the house of Israel: thus saith the Lord God:
Be converted, forsake your idols, and turn your faces from all your
abominations. For every man, ( whether he be of the house of Israel
or a stranger, that sojourneth in Israel ) which departeth from me,
and carrieth idols in his heart, purposing to go still stumbling in
his own wickedness, and cometh to a Prophet, for to ask counsel at
me through him: unto that man will I the Lord give answer, by mine
own self. I will set my face against that man, And will make him an
example for other, yee and a common byword: and will root him out of
my people, that he may know, how that I am the Lord. And if that
Prophet be deceived, when he telleth him a word: then I the Lord
myself have deceived that Prophet, and will stretch forth mine hand
upon him, to root him out of my people Israel: and they both shall
be punished for their wickedness. According to the sin of him that
asketh, shall the sin of the Prophet be: that the house of Israel be
led no more away from me through error, and be no more defiled in
their wickedness: but that they may be my people, and I their God,
sayeth the Lord God. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying:
Thou son of man, when the land sinneth against me, and goeth forth
in wickedness: I will stretch out mine hand upon it, and destroy all
the provision of their bread, and send *dirth upon them, to destroy
man and beast in the land. And though Noe, Daniel and Job these
three men were among them, yet shall they in their righteousness
deliver but their own souls, saith the Lord God. If I bring noisome
beasts into the land, to waste it up, and it be so desolate, that no
man may go therein for beasts: if these three men were also in the
land, as truly as I live, ( saith the Lord God ) they shall save
neither sons nor daughters, but be only delivered themselves: as for
the land it shall be waste.
Or if I bring a sword into the land, and charge it to go
through the land: so that, I slay down man and beast in it, and if
these three men were therein: as truly as I live, ( saith the Lord
God ) they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but only be
saved themselves. If I send a pestilence into that land, and pour
out my sore indignation upon it in blood, so that I root out of it
both man and beast, and if Noe, Daniel and Job, were therin: as
truly as I live, ( saith the Lord God ) they shall deliver neither
sons nor daughters, but save their own souls in their righteousness.
Moreover, thus saith the Lord God: Though I send my four troublesome
plagues upon Jerusalem: the sword, hunger, perilous beasts, and
pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it: yet shall there be a
remnant saved therein, which shall bring forth their sons and
daughters. Behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see
their way, and what they take in hand, and ye shall be comforted, as
touching all the plagues that I have brought upon Jerusalem, they
shall comfort you, when ye see their way and works: and ye shall
know, that I have done so against Jerusalem, as I did, saith the
Lord God.
*dirth (famine)
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Chapter 15
The word of the
Lord came unto me, saying: Thou son of man: What cometh of the vine
among all other trees? And of the vine stock among all the other
timber of the groove? Do men take wood of it, to make any work
withal? Or may there be a nail be made of it, to hang anything upon?
Behold it is cast into the fire to be burnt, the fire comsumeth both
the ends of it, the midest is burnt to ashes. Is it meat then for
any work? No.
Seeing then, that it was meat for no work, being whole: much
less may there anything be made of it, when the fire hath consumed
it and burnt it. And therefore thus sayeth the Lord God: Like as I
cast the vine into the fire to be burnt, as other trees of the wood:
Even so will I do with them that dwell in Jerusalem, and set my face
against them: they shall go out from the fire, and yet the fire
shall consume them. Then shall ye know, that I am the Lord, when I
set my face against them, and make the Land waste: because they have
sore offended, sayeth the Lord God.
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Chapter 16
Again, the word of the Lord
spake unto me, saying: Thou son of man, show the city of Jerusalem
their abominations, and say: thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem:
Thy progeny and kindred came out of the land of Canaan, thy father
was an Amorite, thy mother an Cethite. In the day of thy birth when
thou wast born, the string of thy navel was not cut off: , thou wast
not bathed in water to make thee clean: thou wast neither rubbed
with salt, nor swaddled in clouts: No man regarded that so much, as
to do any of these things for thee, or to show thee such favor, but
thou was utterly cast out upon the field, yee despised wast thou in
the day of thy birth.
Then came I by thee, and saw thee trodden down in thine own
blood, and said unto thee: thou shalt be purged from thine own
blood, from thine own blood ( I say ) shalt thou be cleansed. So I
planted thee, as the blossom of the field: thou art grown up, and
waxen great: thou hast gotten a marvelous pleasant beauty, thy
breasts are come up, thy hair is goodly grown, where as thou was
naked and bare afore.
Now when I went by thee, and looked upon thee: behold, thy
time was come, yee even the time to vow thee. Then spread I my
clothes over thee, to cover thy dishonesty: yee I made an oath unto
thee, and married myself with thee ( sayeth the Lord God ) and so
thou becamest mine own. Then washed I thee with water, and purged
thy blood from thee, I anointed thee with oil, I gave thee change of
rayments, I made thee shoes of Tarus leather: I girded thee about
with white silk, I clothed thee with kerchues, I decked thee with
costly apparel, I put rings upon thy fingers: and chain about thy
neck, spangles on thy forehead, earrings upon thine ears, and set a
beautiful crown upon thine head. Thus wast thou decked with silver
and gold, and thy raiment was of fine white silk, of needle work and
diverse colors.
Thou didst eat nothing but simnels, honey and oil: marvelous
goodly wast thou and beautiful, yee even a very Queen wast thou. In
so much, that thy beauty was spoken of among the Heathen, for thou
was excellent in my beauty, which I put upon thee sayeth the Lord
God. But thou hast put confidence in thine own beauty, and played
the harlot, when thou haddest gotten thee a name. Thou hast
committed whoredom, with all that went by thee, and hast fulfilled
their desires: yee thou hast taken thy garments of diverse colors,
and decked thine alters therewith, where upon thou mightest fulfill
thine whoredom, of such a fashion, as never was done, nor shall be.
The goodly ornaments and Jewels which I gave thee of mine own gold
and silver, hast thou taken, and made thee mens images thereof, and
committed whoredom withal.
Thy garments of diverse colors hast thou taken, and decked
them therewith: mine oil and incense hast thou set before them. My
meat which I gave thee, as fimnels, oil and honey: ( to feed thee
withal ) that hast thou set before them, for a sweet savior. And
this also came to pass, sayeth the Lord God: Thou hast taken thine
own sons and daughters, whom thou hast begotten unto me: and these
hast thou offered up to them, to be their meat. Is this but a small
whoredom of thine ( thinkest thou ) that thou slayest my children,
and givest them over, to be burnt unto them? And yet in all thy
abominations and whoredom, thou hast not remembered the days of thy
youth, how naked and bare thou wast at that time and trodden down in
thine own blood. After all these thy wickednesses ( woe, woe unto
thee, sayeth the Lord ) thou hast builded up thy*stewes and *brodel
houses in every place: yee at the head of every street thou hast *builded
an alter. Thou hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, thou hast layed
out thy legs to every one that came by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
Thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbors,
which had much flesh: and thus hast thou used thine whoredoms, to
anger me.
Behold, I will stretched out my hand over thee, and minished
thy store of food, and deliver thee over into the wiles of the
Philistines thine enemies, which are ashamed of thy abominable way.
Thou hast played the whore also with the Assirians, which might not
satisfy thee: Yee, thou hast played the harlot, and not had enough.
Thus hast thou committed thy fornication from the land of Canaan
unto the Caldees, and yet thy lust not satisfied. Now should I
circumcise thine heart ( saith the Lord God) seeing thou doest all
these things, thou precious whore: building thy stewes at the head
of street, and thy brodel houses in all places? Thou hast not been
as another whore, that maketh boast of her winning but as a wife
that breaketh wedlock, and taketh other instead of her husband.
Gifts are given to all other whores, but thou givest rewards unto
all thy lovers: and offerest them gifts, to come unto thee out of
all places, and to committee fornication with thee. It is come to
pass with thee in thy whoredoms contrary to the use of other women:
yee there hath no such fornication been committed after thee, seeing
that thou *proffer gifts unto other, and no regard is given thee:
this is a contrary thing.
Moreover, I will judge thee as a breaker of wedlock and a
murderer, and recompense thee thine own blood in wrath and jealousy.
I will give thee over to their power, that shall break down thy
stewes, and destroy thy brodel houses: they shall strip thee out of
thy clothes, all thy fair and beautiful jewels shall they take from
thee, and so let the sit naked and bare: yee they shall bring the
common people upon thee, which shall stone thee, and slay thee down
with their swords. They shall burn up thy houses, and punish thee in
the sight of many women. Thus will I make thy whoredom to cease, sop
that thou shalt give out no more rewards.
Should I make my wrath to be still, take my jealousy from
thee, be content, and no more to be displeased? Seeing thou
remembered not the days of thy youth, but provoked me to wrath in
all these things? Behold therefore, I will bring thy own ways upon
thine head, saith the Lord God: how be it, I never did unto thee,
according to thy wickedness and all thy abominations. Behold, all
they that use common proverbs, shall use this proverb also against
thee: such a mother, such a daughter.
Thou art even thy mothers own daughter, that hath cast off her
husband and her children: Yee thou art the sister of thy sisters,
which forsook their husbands and their children. Your mother is an
Cethite, and your father an Amorite. Thine eldest sister is Samaria,
she and her daughters that dwell upon thy left hand.
But thy youngest sister that dwelleth on thy right hand, is
Sodoma and her daughters. Yet hast thou not walked after their ways,
nor done after their abominations: but in all thy ways thou hast
been more corrupt than they. As truly as I live, saith the Lord God,
Sodoma thy sister with her daughters hath not done so evil, as thou
and thy daughters. Behold, the sins of thy sister Sodoma, were
these: Pride, fullness of meat, and abundance and Idleness: these
things had she and in her daughters. Besides that they reached not
their hand to the poor and needy, but were proud and did abominable
things before me: therefore I took them away, when I seen it.
Neither hath Samaria done half of thy sins, yee thou hast exceeded
them in wickedness: In so much that in comparison of all the
abominations which thou hast done, thou has made thy sisters good
women.
As for their captivity, namely the captivity of Sodoma and her
daughters: the captivity of Samaria and her daughters: I will bring
them again, so will I also bring again thy captive among them: that
thou mayest take thine own confusion upon thee, and be ashamed of
all that thou hast done, and to comfort them. Thus thy sisters (
namely ) Sodoma and her daughters: Samaria and her daughters with
thy self and thy daughters, shall be brought again to your old
estate. When thou was in thy pride, and before thy wickedness came
to light: thou wouldest not hear speak of thy sister Sodoma, until
the time that the Syrians with all their towns, and the Philistines,
with all that live round about them, brought thee to shame and
confusion: that thou mightest bare thine own filthiness and
abomination, saith the Lord.
For thus saith the Lord God: I should ( by right ) deal with
thee as thou hast done. Thou hast despised the oath and broken the
covenant. Nevertheless, I will remember the covenant that I made
with thee in thy youth, in so much that it shall be an everlasting
covenant: so that thou also remember thy ways, and be ashamed of
them: then shalt thou receive of me thy elder and younger sisters,
whom I will make thy daughters, and that besides thy covenant. And
so I will renew my covenant with thee, that thou mayest know that I
am the Lord: That thou mayest think upon it, be ashamed, and excuse
thine own confusion no more: when I have forgiven thee, all that
thou hast done, saith the Lord God.
*stewes=Middle English stewen, to bathe in a steam bath, see also a
place of male whores: 1st Kings 14. *brodel= A house of
prostitution. *proffer (to offer for acceptance of )
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